BEYOND NAPLES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5

BEYOND NAPLES

Fleeing Germans Hammered EIGHTH ARMY GAIN (By Telegraph?— Press Assn.—Copyright > (Received October 3, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Fifth Army, which yesterday captured Naples, is meeting stiff resistance north of Naples where the Germans are using arm oured vehicles. < r- r > a The British United Press representative with the Fifth Army says that strong Allied formations are ceaselessly hammering t e Germans who are falling back from the Naples area along the twin roads to Aversa and Caserta, the only retreat routes available to them, and are also attacking roads, bridges and other targets well ahead of the retreating forces. Vichy radio stated that the Germans evacuated Naples and will establish a new line between the Gulf of Caeta, Benevento and Capua where the Volturno forms a natural barrier. General Clark has considerably increased the Allied pressure in the Benevento area. /-> v The Eighth Army has occupied the whole of the Gargano Peninsula, which is north of the Gulf of Manfredonia, in the Foggia

Province. / Berlin radio, says that the Eighth Army, moving west from Eoggia, has reached Ariano, 20 miles due east of Benevento.